Saturday, February 26, 2011

Passed Gassed

I am beyond tired right now... Just to put it into context, it has been a monumental chore for me to get into a hot tub, type things, fill a water bottle, and eat chocolate. Usually these things are AUTOMATIC BABY!

If you were a betting man, would you ever bet against Dicky V?

The day started off with masters swimming which I have avoided due to the early nature of these workouts. It walks that fine line of exercise being fun and exercise being productive when you have to get up around 6 am to do it. However, the swim sets are always awesome thanks to the LEGEND, Jill Savege.

WARNING: Workout details below! This part will bore you if you aren't geeked up on tri crap...

Warm up6x150 pull w/ paddles3x100 on 1:30, 3x100 on 1:25, 3x100 on 1:202x100 on 1:30, 2x100 on 1:25, 2x100 on 1:201x100 on 1:30, 1x100 on 1:25, 1x100 on 1:20100 ez3x200 IMcool down

It was sick and I BLASTED the 100's... super cruisey and fast enough to get massive amounts of rest even on the 1:20's. 3 weeks ago, I would have been pressed to make 1:20 intervals.

Double shot at starbucks and immediately off to a bike with Jason, Matt, and Tony. They had a 40k TT to do and I had 20k of over under intervals. My set was 3x (5min @ 360watts, 5min @300 watts). My powermeter had no batteries so I just kind of winged it...I ended up averaging 26.4 mph on a super windy day and without pinning it too bad. Again pretty comfortable and the speed was just there. I followed Tony around for the rest of his TT and then cooled down with them. 2hrs and 10 min on the bike. The boys smashed it. Jason and Matt hit 1:08-1:09 territory and Tony hit 1:04. Good early season stuff.

On to the next one... I immediately hopped off the bici and had a 5 min build to race pace followed by 15 min easy... I pushed a bit too hard I guess and ran the 5 minutes @ 5:24 min/mile pace! The effort didn't feel out of control but who knows. It's easy to feel good for 5 minutes.

I got home and fell onto the bed. It was noon. Just looking at all the crap I did before noon makes me tired. That is too productive for a Saturday morning in this blogger's humble opinion.

2 comments:

I may not understand all the tri lingo, but you are one of my heroes. Your passion, dedication, work ethic, and sense of humor inspire me. Once all this snow melts, I may hang up the skis and snowshoes and pull out my dusty running shoes. Unless of course there's open water. Then...

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The daily toll is satisfying but arduous on the whole, not some bounding, joyous nature romp described in the magazines. Zen runners, joggers, running poets, and the like may say different but their euphoric selves are generally nowhere to be seen on the dark sleeting mornings.